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Title: Through our unknown Southwest, the wonderland of the United States-- little known and unappreciated-- the home of the cliff dweller and the Hopi, the forest ranger and the Navajo.-- the lure of the painted desert
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina), 1871-1936
Subjects: Hopi Indians Navajo Indians
Publisher: New York, McBride, Nast & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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tel rotundas. Not the New Yorker, whosaw the prairie towns fly past the car windows. Notthe Texans who were guided round a real estate pro-ject by an Eastern land boomster. And eachwanted to find the real thing — had paid money tofind a holiday playground, to forget care and stabapathy and enlarge life. And each complained ofthe extortionate charges on every side in the city life.And two out of three went back a little disappointedthat they had not seen the fabled wonders of theWest — the big trees, the peaks at close range, thefamous canons, the mountain lakes, the naturalbridges. When I tried to explain to the NewYorker that at a cost of one-tenth what the big hotelscharge, you could go straight into the heart of themountain western wilds, whether you are a man,woman, child, or group of all three — could gostraight out to the fabled wonders of big trees andmountain lakes and snowy peaks — I was greetedwith that peculiarly New Yorky look suggestive ofAnanias and De Rougement.
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The imposing ruins of a jirehistoric Hopi temple nearPunta de Agua, Manzano Forest THE NATIONAL FORESTS 5 Sadder is the case of the Invalid migrating West.He has come with high hopes looking for thenational health resort. Does he find it? Not oncein a thousand cases. If health seekers have money,they take a private house in the city, where the bestof air is at its worst; but many invalids are scarce ofmoney, and come seeking the health resort at greatpecuniary sacrifice. Do they find it? Certainly notknocking from boarding house to boarding house andhotel to hotel, re-infecting themselves with their owngerms till the very telephone booths have to beguarded. At one famous lung city where I stayed,I heard three invalids coughing life away along thecorridor where my room happened to be. Thecharge for those stuffy rooms was $2 and $3 and $5a day without meals. At a cost of $10 for trainfare, I went out to one of the National Forests — thepass over the Divide 11,000 feet, the village cen

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